Maine Educator Online, News, Winter 23
Across the state, local associations are using collective bargaining to make their lives and their students’ lives better. From pay gains to better health insurance to dealing with inflation, here are some of the more recent contract successes. Gorham Contract...
Maine Educator Online, Member's Only, News, Winter 23
By Rachelle Bristol It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year I LOVE the holidays. They are full of tradition, kindness, and good cheer. Some of my best family memories revolve around an evergreen tree with lights and shiny ornaments. We had a family tradition that we...
Maine Educator Online, News, Winter 23
At a GOTV rally just before Election Day (now in the rearview mirror–thankfully!), the candidate for State House District 95, Mana Abdi, spoke. She has now been elected as a representative from Lewiston—the first Somali-American to hold a seat in our...
Fall 22, Maine Educator Online, Member's Only, News
When I reflect on this past summer, I can only think of one word. Baseball. For our family, it was the summer of baseball. Our youngest son’s team won the Maine State Championship, which was a huge accomplishment, and the first time the city of Portland won in the...
Fall 22, Maine Educator Online, News, Representative Assembly
2022 NEA Representative Assembly Back and Better than EverBy: Cindy Long, NEA Today Edited by: Giovanna Bechard, MEA Communications Director After two years of the pandemic, delegates to the 2022 NEA Representative Assembly (RA) were back in person in Chicago, with...
Fall 22, Maine Educator Online, News, Read Across America
School Librarian and MEA member Meg Rooks recommends the following books for your students this school year. Smart slow-burn of a novel told in the alternating perspectives of two black students at an elite and mostly white prep school. Devon and Chiameka are being...
